Do You Want to Make Yahoo! as Your Primary Search Engine?

What do you want from Yahoo! as your primary search engine (and dump Google) ? Yahoo! sent the survey to 5 percent of Yahoo Mail users.

“Yahoo is considering launching a program to reward people who make Yahoo their primary search engine. Yahoo Mail users will be given early access to this program. You will receive a monthly reward if you make Yahoo your primary search engine. This means that most of the searching you do each month must be on Yahoo Search.”

My two cents

Why don’t I use Yahoo! search? Hmm… because Firefox and Safari (Mac OS X web browser) use Google as their default search engine? Google seldom fails to find the information I want. If Google can’t find it, I won’t be able to find it on Yahoo! as well. By the way, I don’t remember any Yahoo! promotions or partnership programs that promote Yahoo! search…

go back to yahoo! for search with those rewards? that’s unlikely to get me to make a U-turn.

The only thing that makes me go back to yahoo once in a while is the news aggregation feature, and the discussions that accompanies it. To me, this feature makes Yahoo! look like a blog, albeit with the biggest number of user base, ever. One recent article on the Cartoon Issue attracted almost 50,000 comments a mere 90 minutes after posting. And of course it was news article produced by others (it was from AFP). Which blog can beat that?

Slashdot (with apparently a million registered members) is good for discussions on geekery, but for world headlines, Yahoo! is still it.

Yup, I also found that most of the newbies prefer Yahoo! Search, and even having a full suite of Yahoo! Toolbar and Add-ons installed in the PC I would say Yahoo! web services are great, and I am using quite a number of their services in daily life. But, if Yahoo! Search was to compare with Google, still lacking a step behind. At times, the top 10 results revealed in Yahoo! Search might not be as quality as those listed by Google Search.

doh…Yahoo! uses the same search engine by Google…remember those Yahoo fellas invested Google…only naive net-users who likes to think they are expert users think Google is the best…doh…Google and Yahoo are just the same…

Bear in mind that because of Google’s popularity, their search engines are consistently pounded with fake websites that employ dirty tactics to boost their rankings. In cases like these, Yahoo search actually works better since all submission are approved manually (correct me if wrong).

haha.. lexxe is the third generation search engine. google is only 2nd generaton search engine. lexxe can search more accurate. but google is still better than lexxe. but we don’t know what will happen in the future once lexxe is no more beta.

Google still the best search engine because of its groups (deja.com) and also the image search . But the quality search and results espcially for business and quality consumers who looking to purchase .. Yahoo will be the right choice , and the strong of yahoo is the yahoo directory , it is manually screen by human before accepting into the directory ..

For money .. google adsense is tops .. but i i will see yahoo adsense will be overcome google once yahoo adsense open to international users ..

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LiewCF (Liew Cheon Fong) is believed to be the first full-time blogger in Malaysia since 2005. He made the jump from hobby blogging to blogging as a full-time career. Today he enjoys working from home and spending time with his family.